During the winter of 1941, Nazi troops invade Russia and besiege the devastated city of Leningrad. Foreign journalists are quickly evacuated, but in the chaos that ensues, the unit within which British journalist Kate Davies (Mira Sorvino) is embedded is attacked, and Davies is presumed dead. She is subsequently rescued by Nina (Olga Sutulova), a female member of the Leningrad militia, with whom she takes up residence and forms a grudging friendship. For nearly 900 days they struggle to avoid starvation and German bombs, in the hope of getting through the ordeal alive in this 2009 film in Russian with English subtitles, or in dubbed English.